On 20 May 3d Battalion, 9th Marines was officially reactivated at Camp Lejeune. The battalion had been reactivated in order to support the ongoing war on terror.
Prior to the unit’s deactivation in 1994, 3/9’s battle history had included fighting on Iwo Jima in 1945 and being the first battalion-sized organization to land in Vietnam in 1965. The battalion’s last operation was in Somalia during Operation RESTORE HOPE in 1992.
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